GARY GOODYEAR

'Gary Goodyear' (born March 10, 1958 in Cambridge, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He is a current member of the Canadian House of Commons, having been elected to represent the riding of Cambridge as a Conservative in 2004.
Goodyear was educated at the University of Waterloo, in Biomechanics and Psychology. He attended the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, where he graduated cum laude, was class president, and valedictorian. Goodyear then received fellowships in clinical acupuncture, physiotherapy and sports injury^[1]. He started his full-time practice in Cambridge in 1984 where he was Clinic Director, Director of Patient Services and Past President of Future Recovery Canada. He was a co-designer of the three year post-graduate Sports Fellowship Program. He also co-authored “Practice Guidelines” .^[2]and was Public Relations Director and Past President for the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences in Toronto ^[3]. He was also the health columnist for the ''Cambridge Times'' newspaper from 1986 to 1996, and has taught at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and the University of Waterloo.
In the 2004 federal election, Goodyear defeated incumbent Liberal Janko Peric by 224 votes (as confirmed on recount) to win the Cambridge riding. After the election, Goodyear was named Ontario Chair of the Conservative Party caucus^[4]. He was re-elected in 2006 with the endorsement of Vote Marriage Canada^[5], and was also endorsed by the Canadian Islamic Congress receiving a grade of A ^[6] In 2006, he won the riding of Cambridge by almost 6,000 votes.
After the 2006 federal election Goodyear was elected Standing committee chair of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee^[7](of which he chairs the Subcommittee on Parliament Hill Security, and also chairs Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure)^[8] He was also named Chairman of the all-party Canada-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group^[9]

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Electoral Record

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External links

★ Gary Goodyear's Homepage

★ Federal Political Experience

Electoral Record

Footnotes

1. http://www.ccachiro.org/client/cca/cca.nsf/web/8F61DEB136CC814B85256FDD004DFCFD?OpenDocument#College%20of%20Chiropractic%20Sports%20Sc
2. http://www.garygoodyear.com/about.html
3. http://www.ccachiro.org/client/cca/cca.nsf/web/Review+Group!OpenDocument
4. http://www.therecord.com/fed_election2006/fed_election2006_06011882944.html
5. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2006/19/c4005.html
6. http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/election2006/search.php
7. http://www.garygoodyear.com/issues_24.html
8. http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=18543&s=M.
9. http://www.yerkir.am/eng/index.php?sub=news_arm&id=24659.